Travels in Southeastern Europe

The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.

TEPELEN TO ELBASAN. 323 and generous, It was he that built the bridge that still crosses the river. The builder he consulted said that such a swift stream could not be bridged, for he did not believe the Pasha Would pay enough. Kurd, to show him money was nothing to him, pulled out a bag of gold and threw it into the watet. The builder thereupon said it would be quite possible to build a good bridge, and did so, Thus runs the tale. After Kurd's death Ali Pasha seized Berat, and largely refortified the Kastra. And since his time it has been Turkish. On one of its bastions lie seven fine old bronze guns, two of them on rotting gun-carriages. Any other country would put them in a museum, Ori one, which is of iron, is the date ' i684,' and the letters ' TW.' in Roman characters, Which makes it likely that it is of English make. If so, it has seen many adventures before finding a final resting-place at Berat, The Kastra is now the Christian quarter. An old pre-Turkish church still stands, and in the hillside are hewn two tiny chapels. Outside the town are large Moslem cetnmteries and on the grave of more than one Bektashite saint many lambs are slaughtered, Moslem grave-yards always spread far and wide. Of Orthodox Christian ones almost nothing is seen, either here or in Macedonia, as it is the custom among the members of the Greek Church-in these parts, at any rate-to disinter the corpses after three years' burial, wash
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The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.
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Durham, Mary Edith, 1863-1944.
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London :: Nelson,
[1905]
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Eastern question (Balkan)
Balkan Peninsula -- Description and travel.

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